catnapper
12-09-2005, 02:15 PM
My daughter HAD to have these very expensive portraits taken for her senior portraits. We told her that we could afford the $50 package from the local Olan Mills that gave her 16 wallets and one 8x10... not the oh-la-la photographer $350 package that gave her 16 wallets and two 5x7 photos. She HAD to have these photos :rolleyes:, so she paid for them herself and we gave her the $50 we'd have spent at Olan Mills. ;)
We got the photos back from this photographer a month or so ago, but they sat in the envelope waiting for me to frame them for Christmas gifts. At the time, we looked at them and thought they were pretty pictures but we didn't scrutinize them. Today is the day we pulled them out to frame... and I am appaled at the quality.
Tell me, is this something to be upset about, or not....
First, this upset me when she picked them up a few weeks ago: the photographer wanted to use her photo in his portfolio (the photo IS admittedly beautiful) but he didn't give her so much as a $5 discount to use her image in his catalog.
This is what I'm upset about now: He printed the photos out on his own ink-jet printer!!! :eek: :eek: I just scanned the photos myself, and printed it out using my own printer.... and I got better quality images than his printed ones (the very images he charged $350 for). :mad:
I always thought that if you went to a photography studio, you'd get back prints that were made in a lab, with fade resistant inks, with waterproof inks. I am floored at the cheap-skate prints this guy handed her as the final product. ok print them on your ink jet if its a proof for the customer to look at. As a final product? NO way!
Now, should we say something to the oh-la-la photographer? Or just let her learn her lesson that sometimes fancy isn't better? I feel that since this is her transaction, that she was adamant of doing because this was "better" than the "cheap" photographer located in K-Mart... well, we feel this is something she should handle.
We got the photos back from this photographer a month or so ago, but they sat in the envelope waiting for me to frame them for Christmas gifts. At the time, we looked at them and thought they were pretty pictures but we didn't scrutinize them. Today is the day we pulled them out to frame... and I am appaled at the quality.
Tell me, is this something to be upset about, or not....
First, this upset me when she picked them up a few weeks ago: the photographer wanted to use her photo in his portfolio (the photo IS admittedly beautiful) but he didn't give her so much as a $5 discount to use her image in his catalog.
This is what I'm upset about now: He printed the photos out on his own ink-jet printer!!! :eek: :eek: I just scanned the photos myself, and printed it out using my own printer.... and I got better quality images than his printed ones (the very images he charged $350 for). :mad:
I always thought that if you went to a photography studio, you'd get back prints that were made in a lab, with fade resistant inks, with waterproof inks. I am floored at the cheap-skate prints this guy handed her as the final product. ok print them on your ink jet if its a proof for the customer to look at. As a final product? NO way!
Now, should we say something to the oh-la-la photographer? Or just let her learn her lesson that sometimes fancy isn't better? I feel that since this is her transaction, that she was adamant of doing because this was "better" than the "cheap" photographer located in K-Mart... well, we feel this is something she should handle.